SALT LAKE CITY — Legislators on Wednesday held a bill that would make it a crime to not report fraudulent handling of opioids at a health care facility, saying there were significant concerns over how it could be interpreted. But despite voting unanimously to hold it, the House Health and Human Services Committee still appeared [...]
A Bakersfield nurse who faced multiple felony charges after investigators said she wrote prescriptions for herself by falsifying physicians' signatures has pleaded no contest to perjury, according to court records. Jasmine Hill was sentenced to time served and three years' probation after pleading no contest to the perjury charge, a felony, as well as to [...]
Angie Fearing (Source: Jail records) LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) - Lufkin police are charging a woman accused of stealing pills from her employer over a two-year time span. Angie Fearing, 42, of Pearland, is charged with third-degree fraud delivery of prescription. She was arrested on the charge Friday and is being held on a $5,000 bond. [...]
There was disagreement last week over whether a charge of endangering a vulnerable adult should stand against two former Trinity Hospice nurses charged with stealing drugs from patients because of the reported ages of the alleged victims. In the charging documents against Kim Kochel and April Beckler, the state alleges that the victim was over [...]
Buy Photo UnityPoint flagship hospital Iowa Methodist Medical Center.(Photo: Register file photo)Buy Photo A former Des Moines hospital worker who admitted stealing painkillers from hundreds of patients pleaded guilty Monday to tampering with consumer products. Victor Van Cleave, 29, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Celeste Bremer on Monday afternoon and entered his guilty plea to the charge. [...]
KING (WAOW) - A nurse at the Wisconsin Veterans Home stole several pain medications, including oxycodone and morphine, and police suspected she "has an opiate addiction that drives those behaviors," according to a criminal complaint. Alicia Krisher-Behm, 41, of Ogdensburg is charged with two felonies - obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and theft - [...]
Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018 (News 12 at 6 O'clock/NBC 26 News at 7) AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Investigators say they found drugs inside the home of Beverly and Doctor Robert Webbs' home. Arrest warrants show investigators were searching the safe in their master bedroom and found seven tablets of Darvocet, a pain reliever. Then, he [...]
SYRAC-- USE, N.Y. -- A registered nurse who stole prescription painkillers for her own use in Ithaca and Syracuse has turned in her nursing license. Kathleen M. Daniels, of Cortland, admitted guilt to professional misconduct charges in a signed agreement with the state Education Department. Daniels withdrew OxyContin without a doctor's order and did not [...]
A former registered nurse at the Memorial Hospital of Converse County in Douglas was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday to eight months of imprisonment for stealing narcotics and diluting patients' narcotics. U.S. District Court Judge Alan Johnson handed down the sentence to Ryan Joseph Harris, who pleaded guilty in November to one count of [...]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A one-time pharmacy worker who pleaded guilty to taking opioid painkillers that were meant for terminally ill patients is going to prison. U.S. District Judge R. David Proctor sentenced 30-year-old Johnathan William Click to five years in prison Wednesday. A statement from prosecutors says Click worked at ContinuumRx of Central Alabama, a [...]